David Tarascio

Investor | Non Exec Director Salta Properties | Non Exec Director Moda Corp | General Partner Second Quarter Ventures

📍 Greater Melbourne Area, Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
VC🌍 Australia20+ investmentsInvested this year
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Apr 2026
We are an Australian developer of energy and digital infrastructure, accelerating the next generation of essential energy and digital assets for the nation. Our expertise combines deep market knowledge and global connections, enabling us to advance energy generation, grid-scale storage and data centres from early-stage development through to construction. We do this the Celero way- with agility, adaptability and disciplined execution, underpinned by long-term partnerships built on trust and shared purpose. Working alongside landowners, communities, investors and government, we deliver reliable, resilient and lower-emissions energy and digital infrastructure which drives Australia’s economic growth, strengthens communities and sets new industry standards. Our goal is to be Australia’s most trusted, innovative and agile developer of energy and digital infrastructure by creating enduring value through collaboration, empowerment and responsible delivery. The infrastructure we build enhances national energy security and digital capability while supporting prosperity for the communities we serve. Our approach is defined by three core values: - WE EMPOWER - WE INNOVATE & ACCELERATE - WE DELIVER
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Aug 2025
Padel is more than just a game; its a fusion of tennis and squash, played on a smaller court surrounded by walls. The colosso way has Australian roots and were dedicated to fostering a vibrant lifestyle community. With its simple rules and engaging gameplay, padel appeals to players of all ages, making it the perfect choice for social and competitive players alike.
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Jun 2025
 Firmable is an AI sales platform that serves up the best prospect data, buying signals, and agent-driven actions to win more deals. We’re your favourite teammate. We don’t just give salespeople data. We give them direction.
Investor (Direct SPV)
Aug 2024
Airwallex is a leading global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, offering trusted solutions to manage everything from business account, payments, treasury, and spend management to embedded finance. With our proprietary infrastructure, Airwallex takes the friction out of global payments and financial operations, empowering businesses of all sizes to unlock new opportunities and grow beyond borders. Proudly founded in Melbourne, Airwallex supports over 150,000 businesses globally and is trusted by brands such as Brex, Canva, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more. For more information, visit http://www.airwallex.com
Investor
Dec 2021
Shipping freight is complex. But doesn’t need to be time consuming. Explorate is a rapidly growing technology company that has built an open, and industry leading, operating system for global trade. As a digital freight forwarder, Explorate uses technology to give businesses greater visibility and control over their freight.
Investor
Oct 2021
Inspace is an inventor and provider of property visualisation technology and services. We see a world where virtually, anything is possible.
Investor
Apr 2020
Global Hospitality Investment Group (“GHIG”) is a global private equity real estate manager led by founder and CEO Kevin Colket, with offices in Los Angeles, Hong Kong and London. Our executives have invested over $5 billion of institutional capital into hospitality focused equity and debt investments in US, Europe and Asia, consistently delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns to investor. GHIG targets single asset, portfolio, and corporate opportunities with a target investment size of $50-$300m per deal and strives to create long-term strategic partnerships with local best-in-class partners.
Investor
Nov 2019
Hub Australia provides premium workspace solutions to help people love where they work. Founded in 2011, Hub is Australia’s largest privately-owned flexible workspace operator and offers beautifully designed and serviced workspaces, used by hundreds of businesses aiming to attract and retain the best talent. With a distributed network of locations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide, we create workspaces that people love through premium design and technology, personalised customer service, flexible partnerships, and a commitment to wellness of our members, team, and environment. Hub Australia is committed to creating a positive impact on our communities, environment, and members through several impact-focused initiatives. Hub is a Certified B-Corporation, Carbon Neutral Certified via the government program Climate Active, and offers many free memberships to purpose-driven businesses across the year.
Co-Founder / Investor
Jul 2019
We solve cap table liquidity issues for founders who from time to time find themselves with shareholders that wish to sell their shares. We are secondaries focussed - what this means is that we buy shares from these existing shareholders, whether they be angel investors, founders, departing employees, former consultants or professional investors.
Co-Founder / Investor
Jul 2019
We solve cap table liquidity issues for founders who from time to time find themselves with shareholders that wish to sell their shares. We are secondaries focussed - what this means is that we buy shares from these existing shareholders, whether they be angel investors, founders, departing employees, former consultants or professional investors.
Investor
Dec 2018
The big banks are definitely having a lend… locking borrowers into a life sentence, charging them for sneezing, and giving 0% interest in treating customers like people. We know, we used to work for them. Enter Athena, the Game-Changing Goddess of Good Stuff. She spoke to us (well it was more of a roasting) and talked of a brighter future where people could be freed of their mortgage handcuffs. “It’s not about getting a home loan, it’s about getting rid of a £#!*ing home loan!” She was right. We did the sums, and worked out that without the big bank costs and complications, and by creating our own ground-breaking tech platform that enables us to bypass the banks to access new methods of funding, then we actually could slice a pretty huge chunk of time and money off the life of the loan. Finding a short-cut to financial freedom, Athena’s vision is now a reality. Now you can enjoy a home loan with a whole new level of service, speed and savings.
Investor
Jul 2018
We want to build the world’s most trusted automotive retail company. Founded in 2016, carbar is an automotive retailer that offers car shoppers more ways than ever to get their car with complete peace of mind. With our market-leading car subscription service, you pay a weekly fee to enjoy exclusive use of a car complete with insurance, registration, servicing and roadside assist bundled in. There's no lock-in contracts and we only need 2 weeks’ notice to swap or cancel a subscription. If you’re set on owning a car outright, you can buy a used car from carbar with confidence. All cars come inspected, reconditioned and with a 7 day money back guarantee and 12 month warranty. If a new car is what you’re after, let us shop for offers from over 1000 dealers for you. You can also get an instant valuation for your current car online. If you’re happy with our offer, we’ll organise an inspection and even pay you in advance. Who are we? Put simply, we’re Australia’s go-to destination to sell, subscribe and buy. Backed by IAG, Australia and New Zealand’s largest general insurer, and Seven West Media, one of Australia’s leading integrated media companies. Visit www.carbar.com.au
Investor
Oct 2017
Landchecker brings planning, property and land data together into one place as your resource for making faster, insight-driven decisions. View planning information, planning permits/development applications, site boundaries and land size, high resolution aerial imagery and document searches all in our intuitive easy to use application. Landchecker is currently available in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. Australian Capital Territory coming soon.
Co-Founder / Investor
Oct 2017
Lend Collective is collaboration between experienced professionals in the property development and capital financing industries. Lend Collective facilitates greater flexibility tailoring and negotiating property funding transactions, and investors access to quality opportunities in which they can participate on the same terms as the larger institutions and cornerstone investors. Both borrowers and investors can leverage off the experience of the Lend Collective team in order to achieve their own desired outcomes, be it to gain access to opportunities on the same terms as the larger participating institutions or to gain access to funds on negotiated terms. Founders Lend Collective was founded by Salta Capital and Thundering Herd, whose collaboration has extended to now including some of Australia’s most respected Property Industry identities and Family Offices. Salta Capital, a venture capital business, forms part of the privately-owned Salta Group incorporating one of Australia’s largest private property developers. Thundering Herd is a privately owned, venture capital investment introduction and matching platform provider with an extensive investor base. Transaction Funding / Participation Investors are invited to participate in credit approved transactions alongside other institutions, cornerstone investors, and Lend Collective itself which commits to funding each approved transaction that features on the platform. Lend Collective will scale back to its minimum commitment amount to allow investors the opportunity to participate in the investment on the same terms as Lend Collective.
Investor
Jul 2017
We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste. Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight. Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams. At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.
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2026
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Apr 2026
We are an Australian developer of energy and digital infrastructure, accelerating the next generation of essential energy and digital assets for the nation. Our expertise combines deep market knowledge and global connections, enabling us to advance energy generation, grid-scale storage and data centres from early-stage development through to construction. We do this the Celero way- with agility, adaptability and disciplined execution, underpinned by long-term partnerships built on trust and shared purpose. Working alongside landowners, communities, investors and government, we deliver reliable, resilient and lower-emissions energy and digital infrastructure which drives Australia’s economic growth, strengthens communities and sets new industry standards. Our goal is to be Australia’s most trusted, innovative and agile developer of energy and digital infrastructure by creating enduring value through collaboration, empowerment and responsible delivery. The infrastructure we build enhances national energy security and digital capability while supporting prosperity for the communities we serve. Our approach is defined by three core values: - WE EMPOWER - WE INNOVATE & ACCELERATE - WE DELIVER
2025
Investor
Aug 2025
Padel is more than just a game; its a fusion of tennis and squash, played on a smaller court surrounded by walls. The colosso way has Australian roots and were dedicated to fostering a vibrant lifestyle community. With its simple rules and engaging gameplay, padel appeals to players of all ages, making it the perfect choice for social and competitive players alike.
Investor
Jun 2025
 Firmable is an AI sales platform that serves up the best prospect data, buying signals, and agent-driven actions to win more deals. We’re your favourite teammate. We don’t just give salespeople data. We give them direction.
2024
Investor (Direct SPV)
Aug 2024
Airwallex is a leading global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, offering trusted solutions to manage everything from business account, payments, treasury, and spend management to embedded finance. With our proprietary infrastructure, Airwallex takes the friction out of global payments and financial operations, empowering businesses of all sizes to unlock new opportunities and grow beyond borders. Proudly founded in Melbourne, Airwallex supports over 150,000 businesses globally and is trusted by brands such as Brex, Canva, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more. For more information, visit http://www.airwallex.com
2021
Investor
Dec 2021
Shipping freight is complex. But doesn’t need to be time consuming. Explorate is a rapidly growing technology company that has built an open, and industry leading, operating system for global trade. As a digital freight forwarder, Explorate uses technology to give businesses greater visibility and control over their freight.
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